He probably didn't want her hanging around, even if she did clean some stuff. But he offered her the job anyway, because he's a nice guy and he wanted no hard feelings. Doing favors for women is a real minefield. You never know exactly how they'll react.

"the man's partner was awarded a payout of more than £6million....the man...was in his 70s, and the partner in her 50s....About five years ago the man met another woman, and ...installed the other woman - and her 12-year-old daughter - into the marital home."

What? I call B.S. on this. If they divorced 5 years ago, why was she still living in the marital home? Did he not want to pay her alimony? Were they still sharing the marital bed? Is this why the first wife got aggressive over the new model? And if the guy gave the first wife 6 million pounds, why doesn't she just take it, shut up and buy a new home and all the trappings to go with it and get a toy boy?

Honey, we're gonna need to go ahead and move you downstairs into storage B. We have some new people coming in, and we need all the space we can get. So if you could just go ahead and pack up your stuff and move it down there, that would be terrific, OK?

FrancoFile:LeroyBourne: Oh, she'll 'divorce well', as they say. Unless he was smart enough to have her sign a pre-nup, which I don't think he is.

RTFA. They divorced over a decade ago, but treated it "like a piece of paper".

That's some weapons-grade stupid on both sides of the equation.

Unless the divorce was part of some scheme to avoid taxes and/or civil liability.

In Mughal India, a few men used to transfer all the wealth to their wives and divorce said wives just before taxes were due. They then claimed poverty to get out of paying taxes (women weren't taxed, so they were ignored). Two weeks later, they remarried the same wives. Akbar had to decree that once you divorce a woman you could never remarry her to stop that. Oh, did I mention the men were the rich religious leaders?

There's Always A Bloody Ghost:What? I call B.S. on this. If they divorced 5 years ago, why was she still living in the marital home? Did he not want to pay her alimony? Were they still sharing the marital bed? Is this why the first wife got aggressive over the new model? And if the guy gave the first wife 6 million pounds, why doesn't she just take it, shut up and buy a new home and all the trappings to go with it and get a toy boy?

She just got the 6 million pounds. That was what the case was about. Grandpa Munster brought in Sasha Grey, and asked Cruella Deville to stay on as the hired help. She then went to the lawyers and sicced them on her. And then Lord Fauntleroy just gave her 6 million quid. She didn't have the money until just now

JonPace:Article says they divorced 5 years ago and he's been letting her live in the house since then

It was way more than 5 years ago (TFA says the 90s), but otherwise, exactly. That's the key here. She let him (legally) get away already. It's no the "marital" home anymore---she was essentially staying as a guest.

mr_larry:JonPace: Article says they divorced 5 years ago and he's been letting her live in the house since then

Who reads articles?

Even better:

FTA: They married in the late 1970s and divorced in the 1990s, but the judge said they treated the divorce as 'just a piece of paper' and carried on living together.

So, divorced for at least 15 years and she's still hanging around? Gee, I guess all that wealth was harder to let go than that guy's increasingly shriveled body, wasn't it? How DARE he decided to spread the wealth to a younger woman, right?

That said, if the divorce happened because he didn't want to end up forking over a huge payout should he find somebody else (hedging his bets, as it were) then he farked up royally.